France: "Jewish children are beaten and insulted in public schools in France"

The
leader of the Jewish community in France denounced Monday what he
called the "unbearable" situation of Jewish children ‘’who suffer
physical and verbal abuse at public school.’’

In
an interview with radio channel Europe 1 ahead of the annual dinner of
CRIF, the political representative body of French Jews, Roger Cukierman
declared: "In many schools, Jewish children are beaten, insulted
because they are Jewish.

"This is the reason why today out of fear only one third of Jewish children go to public school," said the CRIF President.

He observed that the Jewish community "retires into oneself’", a phenomenom that is particularly damaging at the level of school of the Republic."

"This is the reason why today out of fear only one third of Jewish children go to public school."